Nomad Trader

Nomad Trader is a liberal contemporary autobiographical novel that follows a hedge fund trader seeking to discover the fabled truth in markets and in life.

In this daring exposé of the hedge fund world, Nomad Trader chronicles an insider's account of the tyranny and the struggle that beset all who seek victory in financial markets. From media manipulation and corporate fraud, to terrorist attacks and blowing up the trading floor, join Damon as he journeys to the darkest corners of the mind in the search for the ultimate truth. But will it be enough to survive at Perdu, the toughest hedge fund of them all?

Contents

1 The First Wave of Gen Y

2 HSBC

3 Amrobas Bank

4 Sales

5 Trading

6 The First Algos

7 Madrid Train Bombings

8 Blowing up the Trading Floor

9 Rogue Trading

10 Convertible Meltdown

11 The Cherry Box Fund

12 The Glass Door

13 Perdu Capital Partners

14 New York

15 London

16 Vito

17 Windows to the Soul

18 Think Like a Quant

19 The Treachery of Fake News

20 Trading on Psychology

21 The Sick Salmon

22 Owl

23 One Bad Click

24 Kitzbuhel

25 Phoenix and Interweave

26 Bluewave

27 The Great Quant Meltdown

28 Roberto

29 Asia

30 The Global Financial Crisis

31 Lehman Bust

32 Left Perdu

33 Goodbye Society

34 Nomad Trader

35 Epilogue